Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than revel in the recovery in house prices , therefore , a bold government would act now to prevent the next house-price boom , and thereby help make the longed-for economic recovery more durable . |
| 2 | Needless to stress the point , it is a resource eagerly used to punish and deter actual and potential resisters and thereby help protect the established social order ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 3 | The function of music now was to express pure feeling on an ideal , unverbalizable , metaphysical level ( Schopenhauer 's influence is plain ) ; the task of the poetic word was to reinterpret that " feeling " in terms of " thought " and so help mediate the metaphysical world to an earth-bound , concept-bound audience . |
| 4 | Mr Lundy also wanted DIY stores themselves to learn from the tragedy and make greater effort to emphasise the dangers to the public and so attempt to cut the eight thousand accidents involving supermarket trollies every year . |
| 5 | Many authorities have already established such appointments , and so have emphasised the basic underlying notion of equal partners working together for the benefit of young people . |
| 6 | But they have written to one another for ten years , hardly knowing why , and perhaps have found the greater satisfaction in it because it is a luxury , not the fulfilment of a need . |
| 7 | If you are still using a standard radio system and only wish to execute the occasional loop or roll , then you can continue with your existing equipment , but you should realise that you are not going to be able to perform round loops or axial rolls . |
| 8 | And I 'll tell you this — only the deaf of heart will miss that and not wish to join the endless weekend . |
| 9 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 10 | This will improve the set of tools available to researchers studying the impacts of technical change and financial innovation and thus help isolate the underlying parameters of economic behaviour . |
| 11 | Such a development can only encourage participation in trades union councils and thus help to strengthen the entire movement at grass root level . |
| 12 | Politicians , however , were quite capable of making any assistance look somewhat larger than life and thus attempt to reap the last ounce of voter gratitude for their services . |
| 13 | Above that limit the bassoons begin to sound rather thin and thus fail to fulfil the desired object . |
| 14 | But they did and still do remain the authoritative conscience of the nation . |
| 15 | Their job is to try and keep up with the train on nearby roads and hopefully help catch the faster of the trespassers fleeing from their colleagues on the trackside . |
| 16 | Yet it has just produced a highly confidential report urging the Philippines Government to abandon its gradualist approach to land reform — which effectively favours the landlords — and quickly move to help the landless and poor . |
| 17 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 18 | If , however , different teachers experience different problems of this nature and often fail to discover the full range of options that the program offers , it will indicate that the driving system of the program is too complex and obscure and most certainly needs modifying . |
| 19 | HWIM and Hearsay-II segment the input and then try to fit the lower level hypotheses into predefined sequences . |
| 20 | They , we are told , identify exactly what the customer wants and at what target price ( as one of the order-winning criteria ) and then attempt to produce the highest-quality product possible at that price . |
| 21 | like task showed up first on the right hand and then spread to include the left hand . |
| 22 | The females visit the arena and select the male of their choice , mate with him and then depart to rear the young on their own . |
| 23 | Hobbyists will insist on putting these brackish water fish in their freshwater tanks and then start dosing the poor fish with chemicals because it develops Fungus and White Spot . |
| 24 | GPs will often find themselves in a situation where they are working one day , they are on duty all night , and then have to work the next day as well . |
| 25 | Ramblers and many of the climbers flower on year-old wood : new stems grow out to their full length one year — and in the more vigorous kinds , this may be very long indeed — and then bear bloom the following year . |
| 26 | And a thousand men stayed , they were boasting , to level the church and the hall and the monastery and then leave to do the same to Scone and to Perth . |
| 27 | A reader can be fully understanding a section from a story , and yet fail to insert the exact word in a phrase such as " watched the fleeting panorama of shop fronts " , when no other information about the shop fronts is given . |
| 28 | The Daily Telegraph and the magazine Tee Topics both wrote ecstatically about the course , the former proclaiming ‘ Henley is one of the most delightfully situated courses ; variety and holes so laid out you might go round a dozen times and never have to play the same shot in succession , not even on the same hole ’ . |
| 29 | We have tried to keep them simple to prepare , bearing in mind that most of us are busy and therefore prefer to spend the minimum time possible preparing food . |
| 30 | They would cease to be ‘ occupied ’ and therefore cease to enjoy the legal protection of the 1949 ( IVth ) Geneva Convention and the withdrawal requirement in Resolution 242 . |